Re: UNIX or NT

Rick Morley wrote:
>
> > You would have to be crazy to use NT on this set-up. I wouldn't trust
> > Oracle on NT even on a 20 user production system, it just isn't stable
> > enough yet.
> >
>
> Is it Oracle or is it NT that is not stable enough?

        That is a difficult question to answer -- in fact, it seems insoluble to me. Perhaps NT is unstable; alternatively, perhaps the port of Oracle for NT is unstable. Or perhaps the two are both unstable.

        The problem is certainly not with Oracle in general; Oracle on other platforms is quite stable enough to use for any purpose. But Oracle-on-NT has not been around for all that long, and may very well be unstable. I would be inclined to believe that NT does not provide the same system-level services that other operating systems do, so there are compromises in the architecture of Oracle-on-NT which make it less stable; but I have no particular evidence for this theory.

        Does it really matter? Regardless of what piece or combination of software is causing the problems, the problems still exist.

-bn Received on Fri May 16 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT